Hysteria
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An acknowledged modern classic, Terry Johnson's hilarious farce explores the fall-out when two of the 20th century's most brilliant and original minds collide. It touches on many themes including Nazi Germany, the Surrealist movement, Judaism, Freud's theories of the unconscious mind, family relationships, life and death, and love and loss.
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A strange farcical play about Sigmund Freud, featuring Salvador Dali, Abraham Yahuda and a semi-clothed woman called Jessica.
The play fictionalises a real life 1938 meeting between Salvador Dalí and Sigmund Freud a year before the latter's death.
It is an amusing read - Dali is particularly well scripted as a mad man, but I perhaps don't know enough about Freud to pick up all the references and jokes.
As an aside, Salvador Dali had a pet ocelot called Babou, which he travelled with (!). Cheryl Tunt temporarily has a pet ocelot called Babou, in “El Secuestro”, the tenth episode of the second season of Archer.
